Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King
By: Thomas J. Balcerski
3.61
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
The friendship of the bachelor politicians James Buchanan (1791-1868) of Pennsylvania and William R…
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1. The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
By: Scott Miller
3.94
Format: 450 pages, Hardcover
In 1901, as America tallied its gains from a period of unprecedented imperial expansion, an assassi… read more
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- american history
- biography
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- politics
- presidents
- us presidents
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2. The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
By: Steven Johnson
3.89
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
From Steven Johnson, the dynamic thinker routinely compared to James Gleick, Dava Sobel, and Malcol… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"New ideas need old buildings."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It is a great testimony to the connectedness of life on earth that the fates of the largest and the tiniest life should be so closely dependent on each other."-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"When the next great epidemic does come, maps will be as crucial as vaccines in our fight against the disease. But again, the scale of the observation will have broadened considerably: from a neighbor…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
"It’s true enough that the Victorians were grappling with heady issues like utilitarianism and class consciousness. But the finest minds of the era were also devoted to an equally pressing question: W…"-Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
3. Coolidge
By: Amity Shlaes
3.76
Format: 536 pages, Hardcover
Calvin Coolidge, who served as president from 1923 to 1929, never rated highly in polls. The shy Ve… read more
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"It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. -Calvin Coolidge"-Amity Shlaes, Coolidge
4. John Quincy Adams
By: Harlow Giles Unger
4.02
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion again… read more
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- biography
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5. The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
By: Dan Jones
4.27
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Rebels depend on willful gullibility."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Extravagance was a political necessity."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
"As with many tragedies, our story opens in a moment of triumph."-Dan Jones, The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
6. John Tyler: The Accidental President
By: Edward P. Crapol
0.00
Format: 798 pages, Hardcover
The first vice president to become president on the death of the incumbent, John Tyler (1790-1862) … read more
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- presidents
- us presidents
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7. Polk: The Man Who Transformed the Presidency and America
By: Walter R. Borneman
3.00
Format: None pages,
In Polk, Walter R. Borneman gives us the first complete and authoritative biography of a president … read more
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8. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
By: Jon Meacham
3.44
Format: 336 pages,
Andrew Jackson, his intimate circle of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this r… read more
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- biography
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9. The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861
By: Don E. Fehrenbacher , None , David Morris Potter
3.45
Format: None pages, Paperback
"David M. Potter's magisterial The Impending Crisis is the single best account to date of the comin… read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
10. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren
4.28
Format: 916 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more
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- biography
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- politics
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"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"And Lincoln, as would be evidenced throughout his presidency, was a master of timing."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,"-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
"I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
11. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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12. Lab Girl
By: Hope Jahren
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers,… read more
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13. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
By: Candice Millard
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject po… read more
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14. Benjamin Harrison (The American Presidents, #23)
By: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. , Charles W. Calhoun
4.07
Format: 71 pages, Hardcover
The scion of a political dynasty ushers in the era of big government Politics was in Benjamin Harri… read more
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15. Worst. President. Ever.: James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents
By: None
4.33
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
Worst. President. Ever. flips the great presidential biography on its head, offering an enlightenin… read more
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16. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
17. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
By: Jon Meacham
4.04
Format: 802 pages, Kindle Edition
In this magnificent biography, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Lion and Franklin and … read more
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"No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
"Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize."-Jon Meacham, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
18. President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
By: C.W. Goodyear
4.30
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
An “ambitious, thorough, supremely researched” ( The Washington Post ) biography of the extraordina… read more
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19. River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
By: Candice Millard
3.84
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirr… read more
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- nonfiction
"..the charm of the scenery was perhaps enhanced by the reflection that my eyes might never look upon it again....Masses of brown-purple clouds covered the quarter of the heavens where the sun was abo…"-Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
20. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- biography
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
21. An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady #1)
By: Helene Tursten
3.76
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781641290111 Content: - An elderly lady has accommodation prob… read more
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"Maud placed two small cartons of rollmops in the basket of her wheeled walker, followed by a larger pack of herring salad. They were soon joined by a Stilton cheese in a blue porcelain pot, a mature …"-Helene Tursten, An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good (Elderly Lady #1)
22. Leslie F*cking Jones
By: Leslie Jones
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more
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"Dad"-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
23. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
By: Colson Whitehead
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more
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"Misery is a money pit."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)
24. Fire Exit
By: Morgan Talty
3.79
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more
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"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit
25. Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
By: Jonathan M. Katz
4.24
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking journey tracing America’s forgotten path to global power―and how its legacies shap… read more
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26. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
By: Abraham Riesman
3.75
Format: 464 pages, ebook
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more
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- politics
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27. An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R. Ford
By: Richard Norton Smith
4.46
Format: 992 pages, Hardcover
From the preeminent presidential scholar and acclaimed biographer of historical figures including G… read more
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28. Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England
By: Gemma Hollman
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Until the mass hysteria of the seventeenth century, accusations of witchcraft in England were rare.… read more
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29. Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington
By: Ted Widmer
4.43
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
As a divided nation plunges into the deepest crisis in its history, Abraham Lincoln boards a train … read more
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30. Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias
By: Kevin Cook
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A news-making account of the war between David Koresh’s Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their… read more
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31. Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King
By: Thomas J. Balcerski
3.61
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
The friendship of the bachelor politicians James Buchanan (1791-1868) of Pennsylvania and William R… read more
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